ThunderCats is an animated television series, developed by Ethan Spaulding and Michael Jelenic for Cartoon Network.[2] A reboot of the original 1980s TV series of the same name (which ran from 1985 to 1989), ThunderCats was produced by American studio Warner Bros. Animation and animated by Japanese studio Studio 4°C, and combined elements of western animation with Japanese anime.[1] The series began with an hour-long premiere on Cartoon Network on July 29, 2011.[3] It is the final animated collaboration of both Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, as Arthur Rankin Jr. died on January 30, 2014,[4] and Jules Bass died on October 25, 2022.
